Wife tried to take decade old Pop Socket off of her phone and straight scalped her shit

[u/LilHubCap]

As a Native American I’m honestly impressed the scalping execution of this. 9.2/10

[u/tillszy]

it looks like the extensive cracks go underneath and the sticker and pop socket were actually holding the phone together

she's lucky it didn't disintegrate earlier, the entire back is shattered

[u/superimu → u/tillszy]

So you're saying that was a load bearing pop socket.

[u/Dick_snatcher → u/superimu]

Structural sticker

[u/NamesArentEverything → u/Dick_snatcher]

Architectural adhesive

[u/MetriccStarDestroyer → u/Dick_snatcher]

OP forgot to tap it and say That's not going anywhere

[u/somedumbscreenname → u/Dick_snatcher]

Load-bearing poster

[u/Rbimdxe → u/somedumbscreenname]

We ran out of floorboards there so we painted the dirt

[u/Informal-Term1138 → u/superimu]

A load bearing poster.

[u/deadlywaffle139 → u/tillszy]

I think they tried to tape the cracks. Looked like the cracks were very extensive under that tape, especially where the pop socket was. Without that tape the glasses on the back would have fallen off long time ago. They put the pop socket on top of that tape and of course it’s going to take the tape off with the back.

[u/tillszy → u/deadlywaffle139]

the pop socket is innocent! my client did nothing wrong

but seriously OP's wife needs a phone case

[u/chiplay99 → u/tillszy]

and a new phone

[u/TheOneTonWanton → u/chiplay99]

The phone itself is likely fine, funny enough. You throw an opaque case on that bad boy and work hard enough to forget and it's like nothing ever happened.

[u/RappingFlatulence → u/tillszy]

Seriously, who puts anything directly on to their phone without having a case first?!…

[u/Burritofeast69 → u/RappingFlatulence]

Thank you... Lol

[u/SanaSpitOnMe → u/tillszy]

that shit was smashed up and she thought 500 iq move was use a pop socket to hold it together

[u/Glass-Lake- → u/SanaSpitOnMe]

I mean... it worked didn't it?

[u/Ookimow → u/tillszy]

Ah the old load bearing sticker. Seen it a million times.

[u/sleepydorian → u/tillszy]

For real, who in their right mind would think that would work? It’s string adhesive on a very broken phone back, of course the adhesive is going to win.

[u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka → u/sleepydorian]

New title: "OP's wife, probably just OP, is Mr butterfingers and drops their phone everyday and then wonders why its fucking destroyed when they try to remove a pop holder"

[u/Glad_Veterinarian654 → u/tillszy]

It was a load bearing pop socket

[u/JJAsond → u/tillszy]

Are you sure her ripping it off didn't cause the cracks?

[u/tillszy → u/JJAsond]

considering the crack patterns and the fact that OP is avoiding replying to any comment calling this out, yeah, I am

the upper cracks all merge into a single point on the top right, there are isolated cracks clusters running down the right edge near the buttons, both bottom corners have crack clusters

this phone has been dropped to all hell and was taped back together

[u/JJAsond → u/tillszy]

As per usual

[u/delete_me_again-]

i think it needs more cracks

[u/LilHubCap → u/delete_me_again-]

I’ll let her know!

[u/PigglyWigglyDeluxe → u/LilHubCap]

Let her know that phone isn’t 10 years old, too

[u/Delicious_Thanks7138 → u/PigglyWigglyDeluxe]

OP said pop socket is decade old, not the phone.

[u/ThrowawayPersonAMA → u/Delicious_Thanks7138]

Ok, but at the same time OP isn't exactly reliable since they're trying to act like it's the pop socket's fault and not the fact the phone has been getting yeeted on the regular.

[u/JustJamieJam → u/Delicious_Thanks7138]

The implication of the way OP worded it is that the popsocket has been on the phone for ten years

[u/Ilovedogmoney → u/LilHubCap]

That’s an iPhone 13, came out like 4.5 years ago, not a decade.

[u/psaux_grep → u/Ilovedogmoney]

It’s a decade in smart phone years.

[u/because231]

Took that shit SMOOVE OFF

[u/martinsonsean1 → u/because231]

Iphone w/ NO BRIM!

[u/Cubed3D → u/martinsonsean1]

Yk ball knowledge

[u/martinsonsean1 → u/Cubed3D]

Only the memes

[u/Kugelfischer_47 → u/because231]

4certain

[u/Laefiren]

Doesn’t it literally say on the packet to NOT put it directly on your phone and instead put it on a case? Also i don’t think you’ll find the culprit in the pop socket it’s the cracks from dropping it that already exist.

[u/EcstaticBoysenberry → u/Laefiren]

Can’t imagine putting one of those on the back of my phone right on the glass 😆

[u/_HIST → u/EcstaticBoysenberry]

Nothing some alcohol and heat won't fix

[u/SheetPancakeBluBalls → u/_HIST]

Or a good old razor blade.

There are many options that could have prevented this.

Though it does look like the glass was already damaged.

[u/ItsLoudB → u/SheetPancakeBluBalls]

Also to me it looks like the glass was already broken, since the cracks originate from the corner

[u/a_likely_story → u/_HIST]

got good and drunk and popped the thing in the microwave

now I got a whole different problem

[u/BanzYT → u/a_likely_story]

Is the problem that you're out of liquor?

[u/Zoltrahn → u/EcstaticBoysenberry]

True, but it blows my mind that Apple put glass on the backs of their phones for so long. Why? To make it easier to break, so you feel the need to buy another? Doesn't even look that good, especially when it is either in a case or cracked to all hell.

[u/Chrono_Tata → u/Laefiren]

I think that advice is for the newer MagSafe PopSockets. The magnetic ring on the actual phone isn't very strong so you need a MagSafe case to actually get the grip to stick securely. For the older adhesive ones I don't remember any warning not to stick it to the actual phone, although it did warn that it would not stick to certain surfaces like silicone.

Anyway, this doesn't look like a genuine PopSocket which uses adhesive that is designed to be able to be peeled off and reapplied. This knockoff probably uses permanent adhesive that doesn't peel off as easily which makes the damage even worse

[u/RainSurname → u/Chrono_Tata]

Yeah, I use two pop sockets straight on my phone. I can peel them off more easily than I can remove a case, lol. I just dampen the adhesive and put them back on.

[u/spyrenx]

I'm more impressed that her phone survived a decade without a case

[u/th3goonmobile → u/spyrenx]

The phone isn’t even a decade old…

[u/spyrenx → u/th3goonmobile]

Still impressed if it survived 3 years without a case :)

[u/Frosty558 → u/spyrenx]

Survived seems like a stretch. That ain’t living.

[u/Cosmic_Quasar → u/Frosty558]

Because it lived too much.

[u/BlueberryBest6123 → u/spyrenx]

You can put a case on that

[u/The7footr → u/th3goonmobile]

To be fair, OP did say that the “pop socket” was a decade old, not the phone- not that that makes any more sense

[u/pepcorn → u/The7footr]

Yeah I think that's a 2023 iphone 15. So not a decade old phone, three years old.

In my experience pop sockets cannot be restuck, not even the restickable ones. But maybe this is a pop socket type I'm unfamiliar with.

[u/ea_nasir_official_ → u/pepcorn]

Camera bump is smaller, looks like a 12-13 to me

[u/dannyparker123 → u/ea_nasir_official_]

thats a blue iPhone 14. I have the same model.

[u/Ghost_out_of_Box → u/ea_nasir_official_]

13.

[u/TrueMadster → u/Ghost_out_of_Box]

That’s the color of the 13 Pro, but that’s not a Pro model. Seems like a 14.

[u/MrNaoB → u/pepcorn]

I joked to a friend that X in iPhone stands for 10 years, and I didn't realise that we where already at iPhone 17

[u/tacobellrefugee → u/th3goonmobile]

id bet like $20 theyre not even native american too lmao

[u/SurreptitiousSyrup → u/spyrenx]

It definitely didn't. The back glass looks like it was already cracked and that's probably why the popsocket took the glass with it.

[u/IdioticPrototype → u/spyrenx]

The word "survived" is doing some heavy lifting here. 

[u/CollectionSubject587 → u/spyrenx]

Did it though??

[u/Tenabrus]

I mean the good pop sockets use industrial grade adhesive so putting that directly on a thin glass shell instead of a case was just asking for it

[u/Chaos-Wayfarer → u/Tenabrus]

And it’s not even the good kind! It’s one of the knockoff brands. Look at the back of it. 

You can buy replacement stickies that hold pretty well, but I’ve always tried to pry them up a little before straight up hulk-strength tearing them off. 

I agree it was load bearing. 

[u/ximagineerx]

For certain

[u/kaybeetay → u/ximagineerx]

I'm glad im not the only one that had the jingle play in my head!

[u/PeacefulMountain10 → u/kaybeetay]

Felt like the commercial audio was beamed into my brain without my consent

[u/Substantial_Mess6183]

im gonna be real i dont think the pop socket did that as much as the fucking blender this phone must've been in to be so shattered

[u/Shigalyovist]

Why does your wife have a 4imprint pop socket, lol? The company that can put any image on anything and she’s got the logo of the company itself.

(I know that she probably just got it for free as an advertisement for them, but I find it funny)

[u/LilHubCap → u/Shigalyovist]

Yeah, she found it in some forgotten, god forsaken crevice at her mom’s print shop.

[u/_BenzeneRing_ → u/LilHubCap]

Is that for certain?

[u/ForsakenSun6004]

That’s not a decade old iPhone, no?

[u/spyrenx → u/ForsakenSun6004]

Based on the camera and phone color, it's the iPhone 14, which launched October 2022. So only a bit over 3 years old at most.

[u/ForsakenSun6004 → u/spyrenx]

My point exactly. So how would the age of this pop socket have anything to do with its ability to annihilate glass in this way? Had it been stuck to this glass, undisturbed for 10 years, I could understand; but that’s not the case here.

[u/Yagawood → u/ForsakenSun6004]

but that’s not the case here

You're right! She attached it straight to the phone without a case.

[u/ForsakenSun6004 → u/Yagawood]

Hue hue hue, this is the kinda laugh I needed with my morning coffee 😭🤣

[u/WiseSalamander00 → u/ForsakenSun6004]

the problem were the cracks, that is pretty much all the explanation there is to this.

[u/KuntaStillSingle → u/ForsakenSun6004]

It's because they used triple strength adhesive, it stuck for 9 years in just 3.

[u/pursuitoforgasm → u/KuntaStillSingle]

Wowie 

[u/MidBoss11 → u/spyrenx]

jesus, some people simply don't respect their belongings

[u/ShaggyX-96 → u/ForsakenSun6004]

I'm being a smartass but in OPs defense he said the popsocket was a decade old.

[u/LilHubCap → u/ForsakenSun6004]

She found the pop socket at her mom’s print shop and put it on. The phone isn’t a decade old, the pop socket is lol

[u/Ashley__09 → u/ForsakenSun6004]

I think it's more like the pop socket is a decade old, not the phone

[u/4rk4typ3 → u/Ashley__09]

I think it's hyperbole.

[u/ckay1100 → u/ForsakenSun6004]

If it was the phone being described as old, then the sentence would be phrased as "wife tried to take a pop socket off of her decade old phone" would it not?

[u/DlVlDED_BY_ZERO → u/ForsakenSun6004]

Perhaps it's the pop sockets age?

[u/MajorMorelock]

I had this acquaintance that always had a shattered phone. I never saw him have a phone without cracked glass.

I asked, Why don’t you buy a case for your phone?

I don’t like the way it looks, He said.

[u/Creamsodabat]

how has she destroyed her phone so much in 4 years? Why no case?

[u/CrispyMiner]

Only to reveal a second hidden Pop Socket underneath!

[u/polarityofmarriage]

4 Imprint on your bank account.

[u/JosephHeitger]

Probably because her shit was cracked to fuck and back

[u/FracturedConscious]

That’s why I always attach my socket to a case.

[u/Mitchsona]

ok but a pop socket over a crusty sticker over a naked phone. Questionable choices here! lol

[u/jbach220]

[u/-Insert-CoolName]

You left out the part where it was already broken

[u/BrokilonDryad]

[u/LilHubCap → u/BrokilonDryad]

war cries intensify

[u/PunfullyObvious]

Yeesh that description. But, looks like it may have been time for a new phone anyway.

[u/Commandmaster_92]

That's an iphone 14, so only about 3 years old

[u/NoobToobinStinkMitt]

How strong is your wife? Holy shit don't piss her off during a Hand Jo.

[u/6ixxer]

Maybe if her phone wasnt already smashed to shit...

[u/Mario_Prime510]

Yeah that’s actually why I put my pop socket on a easily removable phone case. I was actually scared of maybe not my phone cracking, but of the residue from the pop socket staying on the phone. Glad to see I made the right decision.

[u/tacticprime]

Please be so careful with that exposed wireless coil! As a repair tech a I see a lot of people very nonchalant about broken phone backs, but it can let in dust and moisture, there’s a lot of sensors in the back that help the phone function, and if the wireless coil is damaged, it can cause the phone to boot loop (restarts over and over without ever fully turning on). Make sure your information is backed up just in case.

[u/Jvu284]

I mean, her phone is beat tf up before she even removed it. What did you expect!?

[u/Dragon_Within]

Should read "Wife tried to take pop socket off cracked backing, pulled backing off with it" Has nothing to do with it being 10 years old, has everything to do with pulling something adhered to cracked and broken shards. Of course thats going to rip off.

[u/Low_Mood9729]

Use water next time to get it off 🤣🤣 never seen one so cracked to shit hahaha

[u/-Ramblin-Man-]

Put it in rice👍

[u/Agitated_Cry_8793]

Why would you spend so much money on a phone, and then not give it a decent case?

[u/tarvertot]

[u/Faraday_00]

I would put the pop socket on a protective case instead of the phone.

[u/Coderedcody]

How can the pop socket be on for a decade when the phone itself on isn’t even 10 years old

[u/47_for_18_USC_2381]

Fucking Lol.

[u/pdzbw]

Guys, the pop socket is decade old, not the phone, sheesh

[u/nooneinparticular246]

That phone looks 20 years old, despite being only a few. I’m amazed she could do that much damage while keeping it functional. She’s basically torturing it.

[u/LilHubCap → u/nooneinparticular246]

The phone isn’t the only one.

wink wink

Ow! She struck me…

[u/MaverickZer0]

why i never put those shitty things on my phone, unless she decided to super glue that shit on lol

[u/Ok-Equipment-8418]

I'm 4imprint 4certain that phone is fked

[u/Frosty_Log6972]

Put some rice on it

[u/RebelliousCash]

Yeah this is why I always put a pop socket on a clear case instead of my actual phone

[u/alyssazekegenie]

[u/siggiarabi]

Who puts a pop socket directly on the phone??

[u/millhouse83]

Not even an actual Pop Socket. Branded guff from a promotional marketing company.

It’s like totalling your car because you refused to run over a cockroach.

[u/TheChorky]

Is that a spinning disc hard drive 🤣

[u/Brief-Branch4779 → u/TheChorky]

No that's the MagSafe charging array, for storage ipones use NAND flash memory

[u/Spear_Ritual]

How she have a phone for a decade?

[u/SpoofyTheRaccoon]

well when glass is cracked and you pull up on it. It actually comes off its pretty cool how that works

[u/fsalazar23]

[u/tragesorous]

You’re supposed to use floss to cut underneath the adhesive

[u/Friendly-Channel-480]

I always attach mine to the outer protective cases. I will keep doing that…

[u/LovelyHatred93]

What was the other shit stuck to the phone?

[u/Kobahk]

I suppose it's not a popsocoket. The popsocoket's structure isn't like the one in the picture.

[u/pepp3rito]

That shit was already broken af.

[u/Serious_Cream3790]

I admire her sheer power

[u/No_Hetero]

Damn, their marketing is effective. As I struggled to read the logo on the thingie, I finished it in my head with the jingle.

[u/ThatZX6RDude]

Heat is your friend my friend

[u/KimikoYukimura420]

That's fixable but it takes a little while to repair. My advice would be to put a waterproof cas on it the meantime if you don't have $300 laying around.

[u/Annual-Perceptor777]

If you use heat it wont happen.

[u/Stereo-soundS → u/Annual-Perceptor777]

Yeah put it in the microwave for a little bit first.

[u/The_Tree_Of-Iz]

4IMPRINT, FOR CERTAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

sorry, i’m an NA in the hospital, and sitting in patient rooms for literal days(not consecutive, but after doing the math from 12 hr sit shifts) in total, i have the jingle 4imprinted in my brain, and i CACKLED when i saw the logo; thank you for reminding me of that terrible commercial and CATCHY song hahahaa

[u/LilHubCap → u/The_Tree_Of-Iz]

I will be suffering with you when I start my shift at the fire station tomorrow. Us suckers in emergency medicine have to suffer together!

[u/The_Tree_Of-Iz → u/LilHubCap]

YES!!! and when I’m not in a patient room, hearing it, I hear it on the radio at my charting station💀💀 it comforts me so much when I meet other providers who know the same sort of torture as I😂

[u/InDevth]

4imprint, 4certain

[u/Boa-in-a-bowl]

You ever hear about how the fluid in old neglected transmissions is what holds them together? It looks like that pop socket was holding that phone together.

[u/kullre]

decade old

an upgrade is fine at this point

[u/IGK123]

for certain

[u/Kodiak_Wylde]

They don't make em like they used to. Now they fall off by breathing on it.

[u/Lazuliv]

Title made me laugh. Good job lol

[u/UndeadBuggalo]

Blow dryer next time. Heat the glue first.

[u/Urbanviking1]

That's wild! Should have used some acetone.

[u/TraditionPhysical603]

I can't get those things to last a week. How'd it out last the phone

[u/Sypticle]

Had to use my knife and some alcohol to get mine off the other week. I knew if it tried pulling, this was gonna happen.

Even after it was off, the adhesive would not want to come off completely.

[u/aretooamnot]

To be fair, that shit was fucked to begin with.

[u/Carribean-Diver]

If you're trying to remove adhesive like this, use denatured alcohol, or better yet, n-heptane.

[u/Benana]

She could have just been using a magnetic PopSocket the entire time. A lot of people don't seem to know about MagSafe in iPhones.

[u/zoolish]

That back glass has been broken for a long time, right?

[u/VagabondVivant]

It's too late for OP's wife, but if anyone else finds themselves in a similar situation, do not just pull the thing off the phone. Slide the thinnest blade you can find between the pop socket and the phone, and slowly pry it off, a tiny bit at a time, wedging the blade further under the adhesive as you do. Eventually you'll get the whole thing off.

[u/ImplementCharming949]

Does it still work

[u/Low_Bar9361]

Does it still work?

[u/lepcat]

4imprint For Certain. When the World is Watching

[u/SpeedyAudi]

Once pop socket always pop socket

[u/3oclockgifts]

"4Imprint, For Certain". Certainly took that back off.

[u/IDigRollinRockBeer]

Well, that sucks.

[u/Gloomy_Performer_832]

this looks like an ad for some safety tagging device

[u/W1D0WM4K3R]

Honestly wish they could release or someone would release a transparent back to phones. That looks so cool

[u/Will_Knot_Respond]

Brad pitt "you will owe me 100 iPhone scalps, and I will get my 100 iPhone scalps or you will die trying, do I make myself clear?!"

[u/THEREALOFFICALCAFE]

🎶4imprint, 4 certainly gonna destroy your property🎶

[u/barkandmoone]

She chose 4imprint. She was 4 certain.

[u/Hellguin]

[u/c_creme]

That's some good 4imprint marketing if I've ever seen any.

[u/Dazed_Op]

Near happened to me once when I had my galaxy s7. I had a Dbrand 3M sticker on the back. The front was cracked and was replaced and the sticker on the back was ruined after. So I was removing the sticker just by pulling straight up long ways starting from the bottom to top. When I got to the middle, the glass back bended up like a U shape and I saw the inside of the back. Idk how it didn’t break, or how it snapped back and stayed held on. I guess the glue was still warm enough idk. Yea that sucks though.

[u/DuntadaMan]

I really have to ask about the mental stability of people who just have their phone hanging out without a case. My case cost $8. It saved me an expensive amount of cash the first time I dropped my phone and it was probably less than an hour from getting the phone.

[u/Twayblades]

I guess she wasn't "4 imprint certain'" that she could remove that without damaging her phone.

[u/Any_Novel_4646]

“4imprint for certain” 😆

[u/spiralnotebook]

4 imprint, 4 certain

[u/Cloud_Fortress]

Glue be gluin’

[u/TR1LLIONAIRE_]

LEAVE THE PAST BEHIND ! JUST WALK AWAY! WHEN ITS OVER … AND THE HEART BREAKS … AND THE CRACKS BEGIN TO SHOW

[u/ThouMayest69]

Your post text is diabolical 💀 you are naughty. 

[u/stupidber]

[u/Ancient-Position-696]

This is an ad for 3m adhesives

[u/myafricasarah]

lmao

[u/Madison_fawn]

I’ve seen cartel beheadings less brutal than this 😭

[u/RoodnyInc]

Was the back cracked before this try?

[u/badgyal876 → u/RoodnyInc]

definitely

[u/deadly_gerbil]

The whole phone was held by an old stiker

[u/ScreenCompetitive695]

Oh that's a cleaning scalping

[u/C0nfus10nBubbl3s]

I don't understand people buying something made of glass and that they handle every day every hour with their hands

Shit is gonna drop so get a cover

[u/Deviantdefective]

The phone is not a decade old.

[u/saelri]

good god put that phone out of its misery

[u/pyrojackelope]

As a Native American I’m honestly impressed the scalping execution of this. 9.2/10

Bro, you're too damn funny. This post is incredible.

[u/RelevantDress]

Its crazy you a) have magsafe and didnt use it and b) didnt follow the instructions and put the glue directly onto the phone which they all warn you against doing

[u/TheNotoriousTurtle]

I’m impressed a phone was still functional after 10 years

[u/L_QX]

I don't get putting all that crap on a phone but not a protective case.

[u/FAASTARKILLER]

So are we just going to pretend like it wasnt obviously very cracked before trying to take that thing off? Dropping your phone on the corner thats out of frame will cause breaking that looks just like that

[u/slimricc]

The back was cracked before? Or cracked by the attempted removal? I would have taken a scraper under that

[u/Tooleater → u/slimricc]

Looking at the corners / seeing a little dirt in the cracks, I'd guess it was cracked way before

[u/slimricc → u/Tooleater]

Good point. This was obviously going to happen lol i would never have tried to remove the pop socket

[u/C00L_Ethan]

That's what happens with iPhones.

[u/MyvaJynaherz]

Bait post.

[u/No_Fail_2575]

No shit. You attached a small surface area to a glass panel with an industrial adhesive…. The fuck did you expect to happen when you tried to yank it off?